Bill Kristol
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The Haitians, Springfield, I always come back to that one, but it's the most obvious.
There was no charge.
They went to a town that was in decline.
They helped revive it.
They were working hard.
And they were attacked and made the object of demagoguery a year ago, a little over a year ago.
And he now has, in fact, followed through and is going to pull β has pulled maybe temporary protective status from the Haitians and is going to try to deport them all.
There's no accusation of anything there, right?
They don't have a higher crime rate.
I mean it's all β it's all β
They don't want them here.
They do not want those people here.
They don't want the kids here.
They don't want the country to look a little browner and a little darker.
And they don't want people from, quote, third world countries, just the way 100 years ago people didn't want Jews from Poland or Italians from southern Italy.
And
It's bigotry, and that's what it is.
But the damage it's doing, I mean, A, some of it should be stopped by Congress, but B, the damage it's doing to the social fabric, don't you think?
Well, to the people themselves, of course, who are the objects of the bigotry and who now worry about their future.
I mean, Trump is, but also in general to the social fabric.